A little bit more Christmas and a LOT of snow

It started snowing on Friday, not much, it was kind of like the snow equivalent of drizzle but it didn't stop.  The kids went sledging on Sunday afternoon, here's a couple of shots of them enjoying themselves in the 6 inches or so of snow that accumulated.

And here's a couple of scenic ones instead of Time Lapse Tuesday.

Tom says this is very typically Canadian

On Sunday afternoon we decorated the Christmas tree.  Last year I outlined my usual decorating strategy for a balanced and elegant tree, to recap:

• Divide your decorations into 2 (or more depending on number of children) boxes with equal amounts of baubles etc. in each
• Give each child a box of decorations
• Brew a coffee/pour a glass of wine and watch as your tree is heavily decorated in small discrete patches corresponding to the height of your children with not a bauble in between

I thought we'd go for the same effect this year and got all prepped up but Jacob and Rose had other ideas, here is the finished tree (plus Rose with a hand print tree she made in school).

At first glance it looks like there is even(ish) distribution going on but this is not so, they decided to make a city and have decorated accordingly.  The city comprises a stand of pine cones, an apple orchard, a reindeer farm, a bell shop, a golden bauble shop, silver bauble shop etc. etc, each presided over by an Angel or Santa and has produced an interesting mosaic effect.  There might be some parental re-organisation although it's probably unnecessary/pointless as Rose keeps taking things off and breaking them or lying the character ornaments down flat on the branches for a sleep.  Perhaps a time lapse of the disintegration of the Christmas tree might be an interesting holiday project.